BE PRE-CAUTIOUS!
We take pre-cautions: A lot of them just to escape danger. We plan our life just to avoid danger, don’t we? We walk on pavements, exactly paved for us. Doing this ensures as well as conforms. It ensures safety from disaster as it conforms to an existing pattern of normality.
Anything chaotic is abnormal and dangerous as it disturbs the existing pattern. The pattern has been paved for a larger purpose. This purpose is something the commoners cannot understand. We are just made to follow it. One may protest yet ONE HAS TO OBEY.
Fear, my friend, works through notions of safety and normality: What if something goes wrong? What if someone dies? What if one is the cause for a disturbance? Everything now is fine, right? Then why disturb? Why do you anyway think of something that disturbs the existing pattern? - Why? What if? How could one?
These seeds are planted through a wonderful discourse of fear. Safety rules, anti-viruses, insurances, university degrees – all these institute a larger plan that ensures a feeling of safety and execute conformity. One eventually feels happy to accomplish these pre-cautions since it successfully evades us from danger.
Now, who really is the cause of danger? In accurate terms, who constructs this fear of danger and why?
For instance, I installed an anti-virus, last month. I spent a lump sum amount. I feared therefore I did: ensure and conform. This fear is caused by someone – a fear of being affected by a virus. This constructed fear comes with a hope of an antidote: an anti-virus. Apparently, fear and hope are two sides of the same coin. One cannot work without the other. One has to fear in order to see hope. Hence both fear and hope are constructed by the same person for a larger purpose – actually their purpose.
‘Trust me… Thou shall not fear, if you fear ME!’
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We as a "civilized" group do always tend to confirm ourselves within a set pattern. We feel this gives us a viable identity. We feel one with our society; we feel it completes our identity. – this conformity stems from our deepest fear of being left alone. Man is a very gregarious creature, so this fear is sort of justified.
huh, isn't it a generalization to assume so much about'man' in general; especially when fear and hope have so much cultural expressions and ramifications built around it.
good point, wish you had mentioned it in one of our classes with Pramod Sir, I know that he would have been very interested!
hmmm ...interested, yes!
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